2 passages by Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Herman Melville died in 1891, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
American novelist and poet (1819–1891). Wrote Typee, Moby-Dick (1851) and the novella Billy Budd, published after his death.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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